(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Just watch the video after reading the contents of this link by Matt Taibbi. I’ve lifted a paragraph from Mr. Taibbi so you have a better understanding of exactly what you’re watching.
I have personal experience with… well, let’s call it the unique personality of Alan Grayson. In his capacity as an attorney he once basically threatened to have me dismembered and have my body parts dumped in a tin canister and fired into the center of a burning supernova. And that’s actually underselling the real language he used. We were having a disagreement about the use of information given to me by a certain source in a story about military contracting, and in the middle of what had been a normal contentious argument between two sane adults, dude suddenly assumed this crazy monster-voice and just went medieval on me. He was roaring into the telephone about how he was going to crush me, how I was going to wish I had never messed with him, how I didn’t know who the hell I was dealing with, and so on. One phrase I remember in particular was, “I am going to strip the bark off of you!” It came totally out of the blue and it was like being on the telephone with a metamorphosing werewolf – the whole performance genuinely freaked me out. I may even have peed a little, I can’t remember.
Now, ask yourselves this: are you or are you not glad that this guy seems to be on our side?
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…is positively creepy! Looks like he thinks he knows something about all this. Hmmm….
issue positions:
Those are all thing I like – I just wish they were more specific. I know there is a very small likelihood that he would actually get specifically what he wants but isn’t there a way to say “I support a minimum wage that can feed a family of four, provide housing and common needs to the people in the household”. Something along those lines that give us a better idea of what kind of increase he is looking for?
Anyways nice Essay – he has a large list of grievances with the bailout. I wonder why he isn’t going further than questioning the FED and not talking about banking regulations or maybe an improved direct public loan system or mechanism that could allow for our direct public loan system to increase it ability to improve those loans. But I am sure glad he is pursuing people who have received this money and asking questions.